The guest speaker explains the appeal of being unreachable and using a plain text editor, like Vim, which allows their website to withstand the test of time for hundreds of years.
Computer scientist Sebastian Seung compares the different ways one can write code to the styles of writing essays, highlighting the importance of clean, parsimonious code for programming beginners. He also discusses how asking the right questions and understanding the context is key to a successful interview.
This platform is like a multiplayer game for programmers where they can find and interact with other pieces of code, test and deploy their own code and even find ways to monetize it. The platform shows a hockey stick growth graph since it acts like a social network for programmers.
The host discusses the challenges of programming episodes during the pandemic and how the absence of hair and makeup affected the show's format.
The discussion revolves around exploring the interest and vision of programming, the importance of respecting each other to cooperate, and the absence of World War III.
A personal journey of how the speaker learned how to code despite initially avoiding it, to make him less reliant and more self-sufficient. He shares how starting with building gaming systems and simple information systems sparked his interest, and how he slowly started to find it fascinating.
